Description: Teasing, theft and the need for privacy are just a few of the interpersonal issues children need to be able to handle. These new books introduce problem-solving techniques, including:
-- Brainstorming possible solutions;
-- Anticipating how each action will affect others; and
-- Selecting the best solution for the situation.

Each story presents several alternatives for readers to consider. Every choice leads to a different ending. Kids can decide whether they like how the story turns out -- or whether they want to go back and try another way of solving the problem. The stories also give adults an opportunity to ask children what other solutions they can suggest.

Teasing's terrible -- but it's one of those problems kids have to learn to handle.

Like all "Kids Can Choose" books, Heidi's Irresistible Hat helps children think through several possible solutions to an interpersonal issue. It shows how a girl deals with a classmate who just can't keep his hands off her special hat. She -- and the reader -- can try several alternatives for controlling the teasing. Heidi could get help from a grownup, ignore it, create a "walking wall" of friends to protect her, tie the hat on her head so tightly it can't come off . . . or?

Each choice leads to a different ending for the story. Kids can decide whether they like this ending or want to go back and try a different way of solving the problem.

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